EU Human Rights Policies

A Study in Irony

Andrew Williams

EU Human Rights Policies

A Study in Irony

Andrew Williams

Description

The EU's human rights policies are plagued by double standards: it applies radically different approaches in its external and internal operations. In this book, Andrew Williams reveals the nature and scope of this bifurcation and the resultant discrimination, and argues that the ironical condition revealed undermines both the EU's commitment to human rights and its moral credibility.

EU Human Rights Policies

A Study in Irony

Andrew Williams

Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Development Policy and Human Rights3. Accession to the EU and Human Rights4. The Scope of Internal-external Incoherence5. Explaining Incoherence: the Orthodox Arguments6. The Invention of Human Rights in the EU7. European Identity and Human Rights8. Conclusion